Curriculum Vitae
I was born in 1923 in Silesia, Germany. The part of Germany is Polish today. I grew up surrounded by art. My father painted in watercolors and my uncle was a well-known Silesian painter in oils, my brothers and sisters were also exploring art in one form or another, we were 7 children. I claim that my early influences gave me a lifelong interest in art. My secret desire to enter an art school was not practical at that time (wartime) I entered nursing instead. After losing everything at the end of the war, the attachment to art became very strong (when everything lost its values the artists spoke an appealing language).I socially entered the art circles in Germany and later in Paris, where I worked for 10 years. I immigrated to Canada in 1959. I married in 1970 Walter F.Thomson an Agrologist after working in Edmonton for 11 years.
We moved to the farm in Fort Assiniboine in 1972.While working as a coordinator for the Fort Assiniboine Museum and Recreational Planning I came in contact with local art teacher Margaret Nadeau .As a founding member of a local art club I joined the provincial A.C.A.C.A (Alberta Community Arts Club Association) .I explored pen and ink, acrylics, watercolors, oils, mixed media and colored pencil and later computer art. My first interest was historical illustration, due to my work for the museum. As a traditional painter in traditional media I started using the computer to generate art on the computer since 1993. Attracted by the new media and the many programs one could find on the Internet to explore the differences as well as the similarities to the natural way of making art My choices of programs were related to my aim to produce 2D works.